Need some changes to the Quick Reply feature

I can't tell you how many times I've typed a reply to a thread in the large quick reply box, then clicked on the large blue button just above it labelled "Reply to Thread" and subsequently lost my entire post. (Because that button isn't the one to post a quick reply.)

Can that be fixed? Any of these are acceptable solutions:

disable quick reply
make the quick reply text box smaller so that it's post button is visible on the screen at the same time
Move the quick reply post button to the top next to the reply-to-thread button
add some whitespace between the reply-to-thread button and the quick reply textbox so they don't look like they go together

I'm open to other ideas also.